One of the great symbols of American military firepower are her aircraft carriers and the fleet that directly supports each of the ten Carriers now in service.One of the great Maritime Museums in the world is the San Diego Maritime Museum, 70 miles south of Long Beach (where the Queen Mary has been permanently berthed since 1969).

In any serious discussion, whether the subject is religion or politics, commerce or enterprise, family matters or love life, sports or entertainment, stock market or 401K, golf score or next trip overseas, the words that are music to my ears are these:

Antiquarian globes have always fascinated me. Proof of this is that inside my home are three near-perfect replicas of globes originally made by Vincenzo Coronelli in the 17th Century. The story of the making of these globes is way too long to relate here — except to say that until you yourself try to put a flat map on a round sphere, you don’t know how hard this is.

My sense is there are some deep connective tissues between Global Learn Day “Voyages” and Global Imagination, the makers of Magic Planet. (See NY Times article below.) Not only are their Spheres a brilliant learning device, they have a Mission Statement as grand as the globes they make: Global Imagination’s mission is to improve the way people perceive, explore and act upon global information.

Stay tuned. Anyone that operates as company called Global Imagination is someone with whom I want to spend lots of time.Read the rest of this entry →

These days, all eyes are on the London Olympics, where often the stories told about past glories are as exciting as that shown in real time on the track, in the pool, or on the court. To prove the point, NBC immediately followed the upset victory by Andy Murray, (Gold Medal, Tennis) with a riveting story of how Olga Korbut “changed the face of gymnastics“. Here is the link to it.